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Association between self-perception of aging, view of cancer and health of older patients in oncology: a one-year longitudinal study

BACKGROUND: Identifying older people affected by cancer who are more at risk of negative health outcomes is a major issue in health initiatives focusing on medical effectiveness. In this regard, psychological risk factors such as patients’ perception of their own aging and cancer could be used as in...

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Autores principales: Schroyen, Sarah, Missotten, Pierre, Jerusalem, Guy, Van den Akker, M., Buntinx, F., Adam, Stéphane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5581442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28865449
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3607-8
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author Schroyen, Sarah
Missotten, Pierre
Jerusalem, Guy
Van den Akker, M.
Buntinx, F.
Adam, Stéphane
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Missotten, Pierre
Jerusalem, Guy
Van den Akker, M.
Buntinx, F.
Adam, Stéphane
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description BACKGROUND: Identifying older people affected by cancer who are more at risk of negative health outcomes is a major issue in health initiatives focusing on medical effectiveness. In this regard, psychological risk factors such as patients’ perception of their own aging and cancer could be used as indicators to improve customization of cancer care. We hypothesize that more negative self-perception of aging (SPA) and view of cancer could be linked to worse physical and mental health outcomes in cancer patients. METHODS: One hundred one patients diagnosed with cancer (breast, gynecological, lung or hematological) were followed for 1 year. They were evaluated on four occasions (baseline, 3, 6 and 12 months after the baseline). Their SPA, view of cancer and health (physical and mental) were assessed at each time of evaluation. RESULTS: Negative SPA and/or view of cancer at baseline are associated with negative evolution of patients’ physical and mental health. Moreover, when the evolution of SPA and cancer view were taken into account, these two stigmas are still linked with the evolution of mental health. In comparison, only a negative evolution of SPA was linked to worse physical health outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Such results indicate that SPA and view of cancer could be used as markers of vulnerability in older people with cancer. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12885-017-3607-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-55814422017-09-06 Association between self-perception of aging, view of cancer and health of older patients in oncology: a one-year longitudinal study Schroyen, Sarah Missotten, Pierre Jerusalem, Guy Van den Akker, M. Buntinx, F. Adam, Stéphane BMC Cancer Research Article BACKGROUND: Identifying older people affected by cancer who are more at risk of negative health outcomes is a major issue in health initiatives focusing on medical effectiveness. In this regard, psychological risk factors such as patients’ perception of their own aging and cancer could be used as indicators to improve customization of cancer care. We hypothesize that more negative self-perception of aging (SPA) and view of cancer could be linked to worse physical and mental health outcomes in cancer patients. METHODS: One hundred one patients diagnosed with cancer (breast, gynecological, lung or hematological) were followed for 1 year. They were evaluated on four occasions (baseline, 3, 6 and 12 months after the baseline). Their SPA, view of cancer and health (physical and mental) were assessed at each time of evaluation. RESULTS: Negative SPA and/or view of cancer at baseline are associated with negative evolution of patients’ physical and mental health. Moreover, when the evolution of SPA and cancer view were taken into account, these two stigmas are still linked with the evolution of mental health. In comparison, only a negative evolution of SPA was linked to worse physical health outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Such results indicate that SPA and view of cancer could be used as markers of vulnerability in older people with cancer. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12885-017-3607-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5581442/ /pubmed/28865449 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3607-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Schroyen, Sarah
Missotten, Pierre
Jerusalem, Guy
Van den Akker, M.
Buntinx, F.
Adam, Stéphane
Association between self-perception of aging, view of cancer and health of older patients in oncology: a one-year longitudinal study
title Association between self-perception of aging, view of cancer and health of older patients in oncology: a one-year longitudinal study
title_full Association between self-perception of aging, view of cancer and health of older patients in oncology: a one-year longitudinal study
title_fullStr Association between self-perception of aging, view of cancer and health of older patients in oncology: a one-year longitudinal study
title_full_unstemmed Association between self-perception of aging, view of cancer and health of older patients in oncology: a one-year longitudinal study
title_short Association between self-perception of aging, view of cancer and health of older patients in oncology: a one-year longitudinal study
title_sort association between self-perception of aging, view of cancer and health of older patients in oncology: a one-year longitudinal study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5581442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28865449
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3607-8
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